Children with Disabilities in Todos Santos, Mexico

Since March, our Children with Special Needs program has been operating in a highly modified manner due to the coronavirus pandemic. We closed our office for all usual services in order to protect the children and their families. We have continued to provide medications and medical aids for the special needs children by appointment or home delivery only. Additionally we have provided telemedicine support and therapies via phone for parents who can receive and administer home therapies.   Any therapy that requires in person delivery has been halted until such time we can safely reopen our offices for patient attendance.

Children with disabilities are an especially vulnerable group due to underlying health issues and often the inability to understand the importance of social distancing. In order to keep these children as safe as possible we are advising their parents to keep them at home. We will continue to provide telephone support and outreach calls to our patient families during which we screen for psychological issues resulting from the drastic change in social interactions. We are continually evaluating the opportunity to serve these children by creative methods and are currently considering the development of videos for use at home for those families who have the technology to use such.   Although we want to resume full services for these children as soon as possible, we anticipate the many issues and risks caused by the pandemic to prolong the period of time until we can return to normal services.